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Deuteronomy 31:16, 17

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 16 Jehovah now said to Moses: “Look! You are about to die,* and this people will begin to commit spiritual prostitution with the foreign gods that are around them in the land to which they are going.+ They will forsake me+ and break my covenant that I have made with them.+ 17 At that time my anger will blaze against them,+ and I will forsake them+ and hide my face from them+ until they are devoured. Then after many calamities and distresses have come upon them,+ they will say, ‘Is it not because our God is not in our midst that these calamities have come upon us?’+

Deuteronomy 32:20

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 20 So he said, ‘I will hide my face from them;+
  I will see what will become of them.
  
  For they are a perverse generation,+
  Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.+

Isaiah 57:17

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 17 I was indignant at his sinful pursuit of dishonest gain,+
  So I struck him, I hid my face, and I was indignant.
  
  But he kept walking as a renegade,+ following the way of his heart.

Ezekiel 39:23

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
- 23 And the nations will have to know that the house of Israel went into exile because of their own error, because they were unfaithful to me.+ So I hid my face from them+ and handed them over to their enemies,+ and they all fell by the sword.